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| Animated films have more major deaths than films for adults | |
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| Night Fury | Dec 20 2014, 06:46 PM Post #1 |
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Study confirms what a lot of us already know... http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/12/why-kids-movies-are-full-of-death/383819/
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| Astrid Goes For A Spin | Dec 22 2014, 01:32 AM Post #2 |
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I wonder if that's a conspiracy or something. Like, to ease children into understanding the "Circle of Life" by, oh, I don't know, killing Stoick. And Bambi's mom. |
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| Erazer | Dec 22 2014, 05:06 AM Post #3 |
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I still think it's kind of surprising, certainly an interesting statistic. The reason may be the focus on main characters though. Adult films usually have far more casualties in action scenes (e.g. shootouts) but the main characters usually survive or only get injured, whereas in family films, casualties are rare but the death of main characters gets far more attention. |
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| Polychrome | Feb 12 2015, 04:36 AM Post #4 |
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I'm actually glad to see this article. It puts a lot of myths about "kids stuff" to rest. I think part of the issue is that "family" oriented movies, TV, books, video games, whatever tend to go very specifically for an epic "Hero's Journey", mainly for the ending payoff. Dragging the characters through hell early on makes for a lot of satisfaction when the hero finally wins the day. It also serves to build a character's background early on, giving them a reason to go off and adventure, but also an end goal: a motive for settling down and living out one's life at the end. They earn the right to call that mundane life "happily ever after". |
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| Night Fury | Feb 13 2015, 03:12 AM Post #5 |
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Hmm... a lot of good points. Honestly, I've never found the majority of films made for adults to be very "adult" in the first place. How is a bunch of gunplay and liberal use of the f-word supposed to be mature? ...seems more like immature to me. I think that most of those films are actually made for teenagers, despite what the ratings say. I'm not saying that I don't enjoy those films, but I don't really think of them as more mature than films like How to Train Your Dragon. I do have to question whether the amount of deaths (main characters or otherwise) makes a film more mature... I think maturity has more to do with the subject matter itself, or what kind of questions the story poses. I know that there are many adult films that have complex plots that are too deep for children to understand, but many animated films also liberally use metaphors and layering in their stories. The kids can still follow them just fine, but adults can get a deeper meaning out of them. |
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